Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

Levende steden by Philip Reeve

10 reviews

lira_the_recluse's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

The premise of moving cities is absurd, but I feel like that makes the points of the book in regards to how "civilized" capitalist society treats the down trodden to feed a never stopping engine of economy a stark allegory for modern life.

We could stop killing each other, burning the world down, and exploiting untold masses, and yet we fight and claw for every natural resource to feed the whims of a few at the top in control.

The book is much darker than the movie, particularly in the final chapters. It also has more time to explore the themes of the world. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Slavery, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and Classism

readingelli's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gun violence and Murder

nooweljayy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Bullying, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Death of parent, and Abandonment

breamfish1138's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Started reading this because I wanted a nostalgia hit, thinking it would be a blast back to my childhood. Ended up questioning everything at 1:15 at night. Highly recommended if you like grimdark/dystopia.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Self harm, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

This is bleak AF, particularly

the ending, which is heartbreaking and feels downright apocalyptic.

add_a_little_spook's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Slavery and Kidnapping

Minor: Gaslighting

reggiethebird's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

So they killed a character towards the end of this book ,

killed the dog

and I could tell it was meant to be an big emotional moment, but then I asked my self "What did this character do before this? Why does their death matter? Why did their action matter again?" And I couldn't really answer any of these. Then they killed more characters, and I just asked the same questions again, with the same lack of answers. I'm pretty sure the book would have ended roughly the same without the actions of our two main characters, or even our 5 or so side characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Body shaming, Child death, Death, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

Minor: Torture

theaceofpages's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

The world has become a wasteland and cities have become mobile in order to survive. In the past, the landscape was salvaged but now that resources are running low, cities have started relying on each other to survive. And not in a wholesome cooperative kind of way. Larger cities chase down and eat smaller cities (which at least have the advantage of speed) in order to survive.

I don't know if it's just a me thing, but it almost felt like there was a bit of a mismatch between the writing style and the contents of this book. The writing felt more like what you typically find in books for younger teens, while the contents themselves were rather grisly. I loved the world building though. It's a very unique idea and I'm definitely interested in learning more about it, even if everything else was far more simplistic than I expected it to be. I haven't decided if I will continue the series yet, but the world its set in is definitely its strong point.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Death of parent, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Slavery, Xenophobia, and Fire/Fire injury

To build on some of the content warnings: Confinement/ slavery:

Our main characters are captured and kept locked up with the intention to sell them as slaves

Xenophobia:

Those who don't live on cities are seen as lesser and uncivilised

Colonisation:

Big cities literally eat and take over others

laurine_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

crunchycrystals's review against another edition

• Strong character development? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Slavery, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

goldendreams's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Excrement, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Kidnapping, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury